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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1973
Page
1
Across Fort Lauderdale crowds and police clashed after a barroom arrest, with about 4 000 youths involved and 27 injuries reported as officers and deputies fought through a general riot. Tourism and New Year revelers were among those implicated.
Washington AP reports President Nixon, returning from Camp David, found himself locked out of his Oval Office Monday morning. A White House aide provided a passkey after Nixon wrestled with the door, while Mrs Nixon had gone to California for Rose Bowl events and Nixon had hosted the Allen family at the White House earlier in the day.
Federal officials say a new flight data recorder recovered at the Eastern Air Lines TriStar wreck site will provide detailed microsecond-by-microsecond data on plane systems. NTSB spokesman Jed Slattery notes the device will be analyzed with cockpit voice tapes and ARTS radar data to form a fuller crash picture, as hearings are planned for March. Death toll stands at 99 of 176 aboard Flight 401.
War updates report US warplanes resumed bombing below the 20th parallel after a New Year halt as Hanoi Haiphong remained under cease, with operations extending to Laos and Cambodia to pressure war materiel flow. Casualties and battlefield skirmishes surfaced around Saigon and across the DMZ as Hanoi claimed no US losses.
Seven youths were arrested in a Hampton area drug raid Saturday night. Two prisoners were hospitalized after a crash on US 65 as the suspects were being transported, with Michael Morgan and Stephen Werner injured but not seriously. The raid targeted distribution of controlled substances with multiple charges including possession with intent, conspiracy, and unlawful assembly. Officials say several further arrests are pending in a two year investigation led by state narcotics agents and local officers.
News reports from Belfast recount a violent New Year in Northern Ireland beginning with an ambush that killed Brigid Porter and Oliver Boyce and wounded two others, plus a rocket strike on a police station. A Rolls Royce plant shooting left one dead and three injured, all Catholics, amid rising sectarian killings. Authorities detained Elizabeth McKee, a 25 year old alleged IRA officer, as soldiers blamed the IRA for the attacks.
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